Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination

Laurie Arnold

University of Washington Press, 2012 - History - 180 pages

Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation.

About the author

Laurie Arnold is the director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. She is an enrolled member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination; Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination, Laurie Arnold
• Author: Laurie Arnold
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2012
• ISBN: 029599228X, 9780295992280
• Length: 180 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas; History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA); Law / Indigenous Law; Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Political Science / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies; Social Science / Indigenous Studies; Social Science / Minority Studies